The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

ROM 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

ROM 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

ROM 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

ROM 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

ROM 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

ROM 1:6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

ROM 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

ROM 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

ROM 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

ROM 1:10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

ROM 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

ROM 1:12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

ROM 1:13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

ROM 1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

ROM 1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

ROM 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

ROM 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

ROM 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

ROM 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

ROM 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

ROM 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

ROM 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

ROM 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

ROM 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

ROM 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

ROM 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

ROM 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

ROM 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

ROM 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

ROM 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

ROM 2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

ROM 2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

ROM 2:27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

ROM 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

ROM 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

ROM 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

ROM 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

ROM 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

ROM 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

ROM 3:5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

ROM 3:6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

ROM 3:7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

ROM 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

ROM 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

ROM 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

ROM 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

ROM 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

ROM 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

ROM 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

ROM 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:

ROM 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

ROM 3:17 And the way of peace have they not known:

ROM 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

ROM 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

ROM 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

ROM 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

ROM 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

ROM 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

ROM 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

ROM 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

ROM 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

ROM 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

ROM 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

ROM 3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

ROM 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

ROM 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

ROM 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

ROM 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

ROM 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

ROM 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

ROM 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

ROM 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

ROM 4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

ROM 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

ROM 4:9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

ROM 4:10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

ROM 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

ROM 4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

ROM 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

ROM 4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

ROM 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

ROM 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

ROM 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

ROM 4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

ROM 4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

ROM 4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

ROM 4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

ROM 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

ROM 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

ROM 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

ROM 4:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

ROM 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

ROM 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

ROM 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

ROM 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

ROM 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

ROM 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

ROM 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

ROM 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

ROM 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

ROM 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

ROM 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

ROM 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

ROM 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

ROM 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

ROM 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

ROM 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

ROM 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

ROM 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

ROM 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

ROM 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

ROM 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

ROM 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

ROM 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

ROM 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

ROM 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

ROM 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

ROM 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

ROM 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

ROM 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

ROM 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

ROM 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

ROM 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

ROM 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

ROM 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

ROM 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

ROM 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

ROM 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

ROM 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

ROM 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

ROM 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

ROM 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

ROM 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

ROM 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

ROM 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

ROM 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

ROM 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

ROM 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

ROM 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

ROM 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

ROM 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

ROM 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

ROM 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

ROM 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

ROM 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

ROM 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

ROM 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

ROM 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

ROM 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

ROM 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

ROM 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

ROM 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

ROM 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

ROM 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

ROM 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

ROM 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

ROM 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

ROM 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

ROM 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

ROM 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

ROM 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

ROM 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

ROM 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

ROM 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

ROM 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

ROM 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

ROM 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

ROM 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

ROM 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

ROM 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

ROM 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

ROM 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

ROM 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

ROM 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

ROM 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

ROM 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

ROM 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

ROM 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

ROM 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

ROM 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

ROM 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

ROM 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

ROM 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

ROM 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

ROM 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

ROM 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

ROM 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

ROM 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

ROM 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

ROM 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

ROM 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

ROM 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.

ROM 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

ROM 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

ROM 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

ROM 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

ROM 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

ROM 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

ROM 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

ROM 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

ROM 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

ROM 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

ROM 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

ROM 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

ROM 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

ROM 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

ROM 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

ROM 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

ROM 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

ROM 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

ROM 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

ROM 12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

ROM 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

ROM 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

ROM 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

ROM 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

ROM 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

ROM 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

ROM 12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

ROM 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

ROM 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

ROM 13:2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

ROM 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

ROM 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

ROM 13:5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

ROM 13:6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

ROM 13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

ROM 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

ROM 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

ROM 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

ROM 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

ROM 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

ROM 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

ROM 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

ROM 14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

ROM 14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

ROM 14:3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

ROM 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

ROM 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

ROM 14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

ROM 14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

ROM 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

ROM 14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

ROM 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

ROM 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

ROM 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

ROM 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

ROM 14:14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

ROM 14:15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

ROM 14:16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

ROM 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

ROM 14:18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

ROM 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

ROM 14:20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

ROM 14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

ROM 14:22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

ROM 14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

ROM 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

ROM 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

ROM 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

ROM 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

ROM 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

ROM 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

ROM 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

ROM 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

ROM 15:9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

ROM 15:10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

ROM 15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.

ROM 15:12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.

ROM 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

ROM 15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

ROM 15:15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

ROM 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

ROM 15:17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

ROM 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

ROM 15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

ROM 15:20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

ROM 15:21 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

ROM 15:22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.

ROM 15:23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

ROM 15:24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.

ROM 15:25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

ROM 15:26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.

ROM 15:27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

ROM 15:28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

ROM 15:29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

ROM 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

ROM 15:31 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;

ROM 15:32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

ROM 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

ROM 16:1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

ROM 16:2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

ROM 16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:

ROM 16:4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

ROM 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

ROM 16:6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.

ROM 16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

ROM 16:8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.

ROM 16:9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

ROM 16:10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household.

ROM 16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.

ROM 16:12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.

ROM 16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

ROM 16:14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.

ROM 16:15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.

ROM 16:16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

ROM 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

ROM 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

ROM 16:19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

ROM 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

ROM 16:23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

ROM 16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

ROM 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

ROM 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

ROM 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.